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Created February 21, 2013 20:23
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Small little extension for ttytter that allows you to highlight the names of certain users. I also changed the way tweets are displayed to suit my liking. To use it run ttytter -exts=customTtyTterOutput.pl
use Term::ANSIColor;
#Open a text file with a list of users to highlight
open our $handle, '<', "/home/<your username>/tweetersToHighlight.txt";
chomp(our @customConsole.pl = <$handle>);
#Convert array to hash/dictionary
our %users = map { $_ => 1 } @customConsole.pl;
close $handle;
#Setup ttytter hook
$handle = sub {
#Store reference to the origin function
my $ref = shift;
#Store the text for later processeing (even though i never got to it)
my $text = &descape($ref->{'text'});
#If the user is in the highlight file then color the username red
if($users{$ref->{'user'}->{'name'}}){
print color 'bold red';
print $streamout (&descape($ref->{'user'}->{'name'})," (@",&descape($ref->{'user'}->{'screen_name'}),") : \n");
print color 'reset';
print $streamout ("\t[ ", $text, " ]", "\n");
return 1;
}else{
#Otherwise print my custom output
print color 'reset';
print $streamout (&descape($ref->{'user'}->{'name'})," (@",&descape($ref->{'user'}->{'screen_name'}),") : \n");
print $streamout ("\t[ ", $text, " ]", "\n");
return 1;
}
};
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Is there any way to:

  1. add ttytter's tweet code to the output?
  2. prevent each tweet from appearing twice in the timeline (i.e., remove ttytter's native output)?

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RC1140 commented Jul 28, 2014

@the-solipsist Didnt see your message till now , but not sure what you mean by point [1] , as for the double effect , yes you can , you should ideally not call the default handler which is what returning what should have done.

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